CALLIHOO Newsletter Market News for Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Julia West, Editor Vol. 9, No. 22 2 April 2002 Website: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE News Publication Notes Deadlines Anthology Polyphony (gls) Market Guidelines Fortean Bureau (gls) Raven Electrick (gls) Market Information Dreams and Nightmares New Yorker Romance and Beyond Silver Web Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS PUBLICATION NOTES Bill Shunn's story,"The Veil Beyond the Veil," is out now in the April 2002 issue of =Realms of Fantasy=. ----------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINES Check out the CALLIHOO website, listed above, for more information on these contests, magazine issues, and anthologies. (Where it says "GLs in Vol. X No. Y," these are volume and issue of the CALLIHOO newsletter.) NEW CENTURY WRITER AWARDS Deadline 30 March 2002 [Contest, Novel/novella any style, theme, or genre. $30 entry fee. 1st $2,000, 2nd $1,000, 3rd $500, 4th-10th $100 each + pub in antho. Mult. subs. okay. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] PAX FANTASTICA CHALLENGE Deadline 31 March 2002 [Competition, writers under 21, speculative fiction to 6,000 wds. E-mail and mult subs okay. Prizes gift certs to Amazon.com: 1st-3rd $40, $30, $20. No entry fee. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 17)] BYLINE FLASH FICTION CONTEST Deadline 5 April 2002 [Flash fiction under 1000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $60, $30, $20. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 5)] MATTER OF TIME CONTEST Deadline 19 April 2002 [Contest, time-themed story to 5,000 wds, undergrad students only. No E-mail subs, prize $2,500 and pub in literary journal =Limestone=. 2 HMs published. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 14)] LORIAN HEMINGWAY SHORT STORY COMPETITION Deadline 1 May 2002 [Annual competition, fiction all genres, new writers. To 3000 wds. No reprints or E-mail subs. Contest format. Entry fee $10 before 1 May, $15 1-15 May. Prizes: 1st $1000, 2nd and 3rd $500 ea. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 17)] SONGS FROM DEAD SINGERS Deadline 1 May 2002 [Print anthology, H to 6,000 wds (2500-4000 ideal). Pays $10US per story on pub. No reprints, sim, or mult subs. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] BYLINE NEW-TALENT SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 4 May 2002 [Open to any writer who never has won a cash prize in any ByLine fiction category. Maximum 5,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $35, $25, $15. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 5)] NEW CENTURY WRITER AWARDS Deadline 31 May 2002 [Contest, poem any style, theme, or genre. $3 entry fee. Prizes: 1st $500, 2nd $250, 3rd $100, 4th-10th $25 each + pub in antho. Mult. subs. okay. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] VIRTUAL IRELAND SHORT STORY COMPETITION Deadline 31 May 2002 [Contest, short fiction, any genre, in English or Irish, to 1950 wds. Mult and online subs okay. Entry fee of $12US per entry. 1st place $4,000US, 2nd place $400 book package, 3rd place $200 book package. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] DEATHLINGS.COM "THE 70S WERE HELL AND WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT" CONTEST Deadline 15 Jun 2002 [Use contests to submit to magazines. H/DF to 4,000 wds. Pays 3 cents/wd. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 6)] IMAGININGS Deadline 15 June 2002 [Print anthology, SF/F 8,000-15,000 wds, pays $950 per story + 10% royalties. No reprints or E-mail subm. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 4 and No. 14).] DOWNSTATE STORY MAGAZINE Yearly Deadline 30 June 2002 [Annual literary printzine, genre fiction to 2,000 wds. Pays $50/story on accept. No reprints or E-mail subs. Buys 10 stories/year. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 6)] IDEOMANCER UNBOUND Deadline 30 June 2002 [Ebook antho, SF/F/H 1,000-5,000 wds, pays $20 on accept +royalties. No sim or mult subs or reprints. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 19)] LEAPS OF FAITH Deadline 30 June 2002 [Christian E-book SF antho, SF 3,000 to 10,000 wds. Pays royalties. Reprints and mult subs okay. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 21)] WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, 3RD QUARTER 2002 Deadline 30 June 2002 [$1000 first, $750 2nd, $500 3rd place. No entry fee. L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, P.O. Box 1630-JBW, Los Angeles, CA 90078. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 1)] LOW PORT Deadline July 2002 [Open antho, SF/F 3,000 to 10,000 wds, pays 5-8 cents/wd. on accept, reading between Sept 2001 and July 2002. No electronic subm. Low Port, Lee and Miller, P.O. Box 179, Unity, Maine 04988-0179. (GLs in Vol. 9, No. 1)] NEW CENTURY WRITER AWARDS Deadline 31 July 2002 [Contest, screenplay or stage play any style, theme, or genre. $30 entry fee. Screenplay 1st $3000, 2nd $1500, 3rd $500, 4th-10th $200 each. Stage play 1st $2000, 2nd $1000, 3rd $500, 4th-10th $200 each. Mult. subs. okay. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] UPC SCIENCE FICTION AWARD Deadline 14 September 2002 [European contest, SF (Catalan, Spanish, English, or French) 70 to 115 pp. Prizes 6,000 and 1,500 Euros +pub. No reprints or E- mail subs. Submit in contest format. No entrance fee. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 20)] MOTA: AN ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY OF FINE FICTION Deadline 1 November 2002 [Annual antho, fiction to 10,000 wds (to 8,000 wds preferred). Pays $100 on pub. Mult subs and reprints okay. (GLs in Vol. 9, No. 9)] THE MOONLIGHT & MAGNOLIA FICTION WRITING CONTEST: SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR Deadline 15 December 2002 [Annual competition for new writers, SF/F/H to 10,000 wds. No reprints. Prizes: 1st $250, 2nd $100, 3rd $50. Entry fee $7.50 per story ($2.50 2nd and thereafter to 3 entries). (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 17)] POLYPHONY: STORIES BEYOND GENRE ANTHOLOGY Probably opens 1 Mar 2003 [Biannual print antho, slipstream/magical realism. Pays 5 cents/wd on accept. First open reading period abt. 1 Mar 2003. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 22)] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ANTHOLOGY POLYPHONY: STORIES BEYOND GENRE [Biannual print antho, slipstream/magical realism. Pays 5 cents/wd on accept. First open reading period abt. 1 Mar 2003.] Deborah Layne, publisher and managing editor http://www.wheatlandpress.com/polyphony/index.html Wheatland Press, the Pacific Northwest's newest small press, announces the debut of a serial anthology devoted to slipstream, magic realism, and other genre-jumping stories. =Polyphony: Stories Beyond Genre= will showcase stories by new and established authors. Two volumes per year will be available via subscription, through selected online booksellers, bookstores or directly from Wheatland Press. =Polyphony= is taking submissions by invitation only for the first two volumes. We want to establish our identity. But we will be accepting open submissions. Look for the first open reading period to begin some time around March 1, 2003. The publisher and editors are committed to finding outstanding cutting edge fiction from new writers as well as from established writers. We will be looking for stories that stretch (or break) the boundaries of traditional genres. Send us your magic realism, surrealism, literary stories with a genre sensibility, and other hard-to-classify stories with strong literary values, compelling characters, engaging tone and unique voice. We pay $0.05 per word for First North American Anthology Rights, on acceptance. For more information, feel free to email us at: inquiries@wheatlandpress.com [http://www.wheatlandpress.com/polyphony/submissions.html] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET GUIDELINES FORTEAN BUREAU, AN ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE OF SPECULATIVE FICTION [New webzine, coming Aug 2002, spec fic to 4000 wds. Pays $40 on pub. E-mail subs only. No unsolicited reprints.] Jeremy Tolbert, Editor in Chief Submissions: editors@forteanbureau.com What we look for in a story: Stories that make passes at explaining the unexplainable. Stories of science dealing with the unexplained. Stories where there are no explanations. Stories regarding events so unusual they defy explanation. Stories of faery rings, stories of lost civilizations. Stories of psychics, ghosts, or monsters. Stories that debunk all of those things. Stories on the edge of reason, teetering on the brink of logic. Stories just gone over the edge. Folklore, wivestales, and urban myths so strange they just might be true. We're not interested in sword and sorcery, high fantasy, space opera, or most standard science fiction. We don't like gory horror, or horror for the sake of horror, but we don't mind stories with an element of fear. Stories that revolve around a paralyzing fear of the unknown aren't going to pass muster with us. The Fortean philosophy seeks to understand those things. While we're interested in stories of a Fortean nature, we still want strong, well-paced character-oriented stories. However, we enjoy looking at stories that don't quite fit into that standard mold. Read the Fortean Times (http://www.forteantimes.com/) or The Charles Fort Institute (http://www.forteana.org/) website to learn more about the man and his ideas. This information shall prove useful if you wish to be published in the Bureau. Submission Guidelines Submissions should be addressed to editors@forteanbureau.com with the subject "Submission- (Your Title Here)." Submissions must be attached to the email in standard manuscript format in a Microsoft Word (.DOC) or Rich Text (.RTF) format. Submissions in the body of an email will be returned unread. The body of your email must contain the following information: Author's Name(s), Title, Word Count, Standard mailing address, A short (<150 words) biography and links, Email Address, Story Length and Rights. We would like to see stories up to 4000 words (somewhat firm). We don't want you to submit things longer than that, but you may if you think you have something only we would be interested in. Anything longer than 8000 words will be returned unread. We pay $40 per story upon publication. We purchase First Worldwide Electronic Rights, posting the story exclusively to our website and no other publication for 3 months. After 3 months from the publication date, the rights revert to the author. We continue to archive stories after this period unless requested by the author to do otherwise. We purchase no unsolicited reprints. Return Times Please allow us a minimum of one month to consider your story before querying. We are a young publication, and it will take us some time to work out our system. [http://www.forteanbureau.com/guidelines.html] RAVEN ELECTRICK, TALES OF FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR AND MYSTERY [Webzine, SF/F/H/M to 1500 wds. Pays $5/story on pub. No reprints, sim or mult subs. E-mail subs only.] Karen A. Romanko, editor submissions: submissions@ravenelectrick.com http://www.ravenelectrick.com/index.htm =Raven Electrick= is a lively and entertaining web-zine featuring short stories and poems in the fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery genres. =Raven='s tastes are eclectic, with subgenres ranging from "cyberpunk" to "cozy" sleuth, sword and sorcery to hardboiled "noir," space opera to vampire yarn, and anything in between. =Raven= discriminates only on the basis of good writing. =Raven Electrick= is now calling for polished submissions from professional (though not necessarily published) writers. Please read and follow the wRiter's Guidelines when sending manuscripts to =Raven=. By submitting a story or poem, you agree to the TERMS stated in the wRiter's Guidelines. wRiter's Guidelines Yearly Submission Periods: * April 1-30 * October 1-31 Open to all subgenres/themes within fantasy, sf, horror and mystery (including humor) with the following caveats/exceptions: * Nothing sexist, racist, or above a "PG" rating. * No cannibalism. (Let's add no evisceration or "skinning.") * No "dead babies." (That includes child molesting/ maiming/murdering. Preference in horror runs toward the supernatural. The less real world gore the better.) No previously published submissions. No simultaneous submissions. Fiction: * Length up to 1,500 words. * Strong narrative preferred (i.e. less description, more story). * Send one story at a time. (Don't submit a second until you've heard on the first.) * E-mail fiction submissions to: submissions@ravenelectrick.com. * In subject line, type "Fiction Sub" with your last name, e.g. "Fiction Sub/Asimov." * Send story in an attached .rtf or .txt file. * Text should be single-spaced, with double-spacing between paragraphs. Use black text only. Poetry: * Fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery themes only! * Length up to 50 lines. * All forms acceptable. * Submit up to 3 poems at time. (Don't submit a second batch until you've heard on the first.) * E-mail poetry submissions to: submissions@ravenelectrick.com. * In subject line, type "Poetry Sub" with your last name, e.g. "Poetry Sub/Poe." * Copy and paste poem(s) into the body of your e-mail. Use black text only. TERMS: BY SUBMITTING YOUR WORK TO RAVEN ELECTRICK, YOU AGREE THAT: * THE SUBMITTED STORY OR POEM IS AN ORIGINAL WORK. * YOU ARE THE AUTHOR OF THE SUBMITTED ORIGINAL WORK ("THE WORK"). * YOU OWN THE COPYRIGHT TO THE WORK. * NO OTHER PUBLISHER HOLDS EXCLUSIVE LICENSE TO THE WORK AT THE TIME OF SUBMISSION TO RAVEN ELECTRICK. Payment: * $5.00 (U.S.) per accepted story or poem paid on publication via Paypal (preferred) or in cash (AT YOUR OWN RISK). * =Raven Electrick= buys first electronic rights with exclusive use of the work for a period of 90 days after publication. At your request, we will remove the work from the website after 90 days. Please allow us 30 days to respond to your e-mail request. We'll try to reply to your submission within 60 days. Karen A. Romanko, Editor & Publisher, 25 March 2002 [http://www.ravenelectrick.com/writersguidelns/index.htm] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET INFORMATION DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES David Kopaska-Merkel, editor of =Dreams and Nightmares=, says, "=Dreams and Nightmares= submissions have fallen off a bit lately. I'm looking for poetry (and a little short-short fiction) and the easiest way to submit is to dragontea@earthlink.net. At the moment the next issue is mostly full but I need stuff for #63 as well. I'm about 1.5 weeks back on responding to e-subs, and totally caught up on snail-subs." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=291, 28 Mar 2002] NEW YORKER A writer on the =Speculations= Rumor Mill said, "We subscribe to the =New Yorker=, and [my wife] pointed out to me last week that the submission information in the masthead changed recently from "not responsible for unsolicited submissions" (which is a standard disclaimer), to "we do not accept unsolicited submissions". However, another writer pointed out, "=New Yorker= accepts subs by email to fiction@newyorker.com . . . (info obtained from their website, under contact us)." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=291, 28 Mar 2002] ROMANCE AND BEYOND A writer on the Rumor Mill said, "Romance and Beyond is closing its quarterly magazine but it is still publishing a yearly anthology." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=291, 1 Apr 2002] SILVER WEB A writer on the Rumor Mill said, "Ann Kennedy [editor of =The Silver Web=] was down at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts a couple of weeks ago. She had a new (to me) issue of =Silver Web=, dated January of this year." People had wondered if perhaps this magazine was dead, since the web page has been static for some time and the editor's E-mail address doesn't work. [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=79, 2 Apr 2002] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ODYSSEY FANTASY WRITING WORKSHOP CHARLES DE LINT SPECIAL WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE AT ODYSSEY SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOP Odyssey, the annual summer workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, will feature Charles de Lint as a special writer-in-residence at this summer's session. Founded in 1995 to provide up-and-coming genre writers the guidance and support necessary to become professionals, Odyssey has quickly become one of the premier genre workshops in the country. Lecturers have included such notable authors as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Terry Brooks, Ben Bova, and Jane Yolen. The six-week workshop, held on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University from June 10-July 19 combines an intensive learning and writing experience with in-depth feedback on students' manuscripts. Students must apply by April 15. Charles de Lint has been writing for eighteen years and published forty-seven books. De Lint's writing has been described as "mythic fiction," mainstream fiction that incorporates elements of myth and folktale. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, the prestigious William L. Crawford Award for Best New Fantasy Author, and the Canadian Science Fiction/Fantasy Award, his books and stories have been translated into many languages and been selected for numerous best-of collections, including =The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror=. Guest lecturers for the 2002 workshop include some of the top writers in the field: New York Times bestseller R. A. Salvatore; award-winning authors James Patrick Kelly, Thomas F. Monteleone, and Elizabeth Hand; and literary agent Mathew Bialer. They will offer their own unique perspectives and share insights into the art of writing. Odyssey's founder and director, Jeanne Cavelos, is a best-selling author, former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, and winner of the World Fantasy Award. "We provide a supportive yet challenging, energizing environment for writers of fantastic fiction," Cavelos said. "Odyssey is for developing writers who want to put aside all their other concerns for six weeks and focus solely on their writing. The class meets for three hours in the morning, five days a week, and students use the afternoons and evenings to write and read each other's work." Past students, ranging in age from seventeen to sixty-five, have come from all over the United States and Canada. Many have gone on to be published and win awards. Tuition is $1,280 and housing in on-campus townhouses runs $367.50 for the six weeks. Students have the option of receiving college credit. Those interested in receiving further information and an application should visit the website at www.sff.net/odyssey, or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Odyssey, 20 Levesque Lane, Box G, Mont Vernon, NH 03057, phone/fax (603) 673-6234, e-mail jcavelos@sff.net (include a regular mailing address). The website includes writing and publishing tips as well as excerpts from previous guest lectures. ***************************************************************** * "Writing isn't your career, it's your religion. Writing is * * your form of prayer. You put words together one by one to * * reach the truth." * * --Mary Kay Blakely, comment to her sister, Gina Blakely, * * in =Wake Me Up When It's Over=, 1989 * ***************************************************************** ==End of the CALLIHOO Newsletter for 2 April 2002==